Inria Chile continues its development in South America. In recent years, with Claude Puech at the helm, she has strengthened her network of contacts and has set up partnerships with investment structures to accelerate the creation of strategies in Chile. Appointed on September 1st as Director, Nayat Sanchez Pi intends to pursue this strategy and implement an ambitious settlement project that includes opening to French partners, the revitalization of the transfer policy and the establishment of a sustainable economic model.

Thirty years ago, the Web was set up to meet an ever-growing need to organise and access information. As a founding member for Europe of the W3C, Inria take a look back at the birth of the Web as both a research subject and a tool, assessing the problems that continue to be raised.

Capitalizing on five years of research-collaboration success, Mitacs and Inria renewed their partnership originally signed in 2014. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) supports two-way international research opportunities for graduate researchers at Canadian universities and at eight Inria Research Centres in France.

The CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) and Inria have awarded the 2017 "privacy protection" Prize to a European research team. During the 11th international conference Computers Privacy and Data Protection
(CPDP) to Seda GÜRSES, Carmela TRONCOSO and Claudia DIAZ for their article « Engineering privacy by design reloaded
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The CCSD (Centre for Direct Scientific Communication) and Software Heritage have announced their collaboration beginning early 2018: it will enable the data repository in HAL to be extended to software and, as a result, contribute to the recognition of the work of research software developers.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

InriaSoft aims for the durable development of large-scale software programs by bringing together their user communities within consortia that will finance a team of engineers tasked with their maintenance and evolution. The InriaSoft headquarters are based in Rennes, as Claude Labit, director, and David Margery, technical director of this national action backed by the Fondation Inria, explain.

Supercomputers accessible to (almost) all.

Supercomputers and digital simulation lie at the heart of the research carried out by the Datamove project team. They are cutting-edge technologies that, in 50 years' time, should become more generalised and used in numerous professional fields. This is what Bruno Raffin, the head of the team, predicts.

Bruno Raffin:
The Datamove team focuses on HPC, high-performance computers. This is what enables very large-scale digital simulations on enormous machines to be carried out. In 50 years' time, we can almost certainly say that these machines will still exist, and on an even larger scale.

Their use will most certainly evolve. Today, digital simulation remains quite limited to a few areas of application. We can imagine that, in the coming years, digital simulation will become - for the scientist and the engineer - a commonly used tool that will be interconnected with other experimentation instruments. Let’s take the example of the electronic microscope. Combined with a supercomputer, it will be able to interactively process the acquired data, identify areas of interest, and superimpose finer molecular models - that cannot be seen under the microscope - on them.

Today, supercomputing takes place almost exclusively in dedicated centres or within large companies with the resources and expertise to use the supercomputers.

I believe that these machines will become even more generalised and be of use in new fields.

For example, simulation will be used in urban planning and, as a result, to assess the impact of the planned developments on mobility, urban growth and the environment, a lot more quickly and accurately than is currently the case. A mayor will therefore be able to dispose of quite simple tools in order to plan the urban policy of his/her municipality.

Agriculture is another field where digital simulation is still quite rare, when it could make major contributions in order to go from mechanised agriculture as we know it to digital and robotic agriculture enabling, for example, a reduction in inputs.

Medicine should also be affected. There are many highly-sophisticated measurement devices, but it remains static. Combining these devices with digital simulation tools should make it possible to observe the potential evolution of an injury or illness. A doctor will be able to simulate – dynamically - prosthesis on a model of the patient, built using the different data available. The aim is to have a made-to-measure prosthesis that is perfectly adapted to the person's morphology.

The big change of these next 50 years: the use of high-performance computers will become more generalised. It is possible that they will not be used by the general public, but will serve professions that currently do not have access to them: doctors, farmers, mayors, etc.”